[el_jay]

Feel the same as someone who dilettantizes with text-to-image synthesis - strong polarity between “how is this any different from the rest of the OSS movement which I support” and a feeling that these images are somehow gratuitous and… facile is only half the word?

But having done it myself, I couldn’t deny any human their own experiment towards fulfilment of their imaginary with these unbelievably neat little bits of maths. If art is ways of feeling, this helps me see the labels to my own world in new ways, and make new inter/extrapolations - seems legit! And the possibility for infinite subtle gradations with the interplay of model, data, and hardware is extensive.

And no longer cloistered behind membership institutions, but available to any with the noggin and consumer hardware to access it… except, expanding equitable access to those things goes through a fraught moral calculus of social and planetary justice. So, in a sense behind membership institutions for those who are excluded by the monetary cost.

Work has been exhibited, transacted in and reified for far less. This feels unfortunate, but I don’t know why.